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"Miss Lucy, I know I ain't good enough to regulate the fixin's of your little shoes, but I guess if you wait till you find a man that is you will go join them seven young women with the lamps when you quit.

Won't you just hitch up alongside of me and let us go down the long road together, driving in double harness ?" Well, he did look so good humoured and so jolly that it didn't seem half so hard to refuse him as it did poor Dr.Seward.

So I said, as lightly as I could, that I did not know anything of hitching, and that I wasn't broken to harness at all yet.

Then he said that he had spoken in a light manner, and he hoped that if he had made a mistake in doing so on so grave, so momentous, and occasion for him, I would forgive him.